Impact of suspending minimum volume requirements for knee arthroplasty on hospitals in Germany: an uncontrolled before-after study

• Những tác giả chính: Werner de Cruppé (Tác giả), Annette Ortwein (Tác giả), Rike Antje Kraska (Tác giả), Max Geraedts (Tác giả)
• Định dạng: Sách
• Được phát hành: BMC, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Những chủ đề: article
• Truy cập trực tuyến: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background In 2004, the Federal Joint Committee, supreme decision-making body in German healthcare, introduced minimum volume requirements (MVRQs) as a quality instrument. Since then, MVRQs were implemented for seven hospital procedures. This study evaluates the effect of a system-wide inte...